Chapter 5:
An incredibly irritating noise woke Crimson up from her deep sleep, said noise could also be referred to as an alarm, but Crimson's mind wasn't awake enough to comprehend this fact. Looking around, she noticed the noise had woken everyone but Omega.
Grabbing her scroll from next to her she opened it to disable the alarm, yawning while doing so.
"Should we wake up lazy-ass over here?" She heard Rosa ask.
Turning, she saw Rosa with the skirt from the uniform and her normal shirt, pointing at Omega.
"Let 'im rest, it's not like we'll be late" Prost said, getting out of bed, "Also, Ro, clothes." he continued, lazily smirking at his sister.
Unable to form words, Crimson just pointed over to the coffee cup by her bed and grunted at Rosa. Taking the hint, Rosa grabbed the cup.
"How do you take it?" Rosa asked, then, realising she wasn't able to form words continued by asking, "Cream?"
Face-planting back into her pillow, Crimson raised her arm, two fingers raised.
"And sugar?"
Crimson once again replied with 1 finger. Rosa proceeded to walk off to get her's and Crim's morning coffee, while Prost headed for the shower. "I take it you aren't getting up before your coffee?" He chuckled, receiving a dark look from his team leader, who was hugging her pillow.
A couple of minutes later, Rosa returned, two coffee cups in her hands, still wearing her normal shirt. "Here you go!" she said cheerily, giving Crimson her cup, "I'd let it cool bef-" she started, before being cut off by Crimson downing half of it in one "-ore it cools down, but nevermind."
"Thanks" Crimson muttered before asking "What do they put in these things? I feel like I've slept for a day."
Rosa just shrugged, turning to face Omega, "So, how'd you two meet?" Rosa asked, turning back to her with a rather suggestive look on her face.
"Wel- Hey! It's not that kind of relationship." she responded, looking rather irritated.
Rosa just looked a bit disappointed, turning away.
"Sunk your ship?" Crimson asked, a rather satisfied look on her face, "Anyway, we should wake him, he'll miss his shower if we don't." she said.
Rosa nodded, walking over to Omega's bed, and prodding him a few times. After getting no response she shoved him, still no response. She turned to see Crimson smirking at her from her bed. "Get him up" She said, walking back. Crimson got out of bed and walked over to the bedside. "Hey, Om, there's a pile of Marshmallows next to your bed. We'll eat 'em if you don't wake up."
Omega was standing bolt upright in less than a second, frantically looking about for the supposed pile of marshmallows. "Where are they?!" He yelled.
"Hey, calm down, Batman, there aren't any marshmallows, we just woke you up for your shower, Prost should be out in a minute, shouldn't he, Rosa?" she 'subtly' hinted to Prost to hurry up.
Once they were all showered and dressed, they sat down – or, in Omega's case, led on their bed – Waiting for first lesson. "So… what're we gonna do while we wait?" Prost asked.
They all sat in silence, thinking, until they heard a whistle and a thud from the room next to them. "Someone's fallen from the wrong side of the bed" Omega chuckled.
Turning to face the wall behind her, Crimson listened before consulting her team "Say, what class do we have first?" she asked the ever knowledgeable Prost.
He looked at the timetable they'd pinned to the wall, confirming if he was right. "Yes!" he whispered, to the others' confusion, "We have Grimm Studies with Professor Port, it's in the East block so I'd recommend going now" he explained, standing up with Rosa soon following his lead.
"Well, let's go then, wouldn't want to be late now, would we?" Crimson said, looking over at her long-time friend specifically, before turning to walk out the door, her team following.
It took them a good twenty minutes to get to the classroom for their first lesson of the year, walking through the doors, they were greeted by the sight of a slightly portly man, who they guessed was in his 50s-60s, who was dressed in a red suit and had a rather large, grey moustache, Omega simply chuckled at the sight.
"Ah! Sit down, sit down, class." He said, addressing the group at the door, who were knocked over by another group of people who ran into them.
"Sorry!" said the girl at the front of the group, "We didn't see you there! You see, we were kind of late getting out of bed, then we started unpacking and by the time we'd done that we had to sort out the beds to make more room, so we turned them into bunk beds and then we had to clean and then we realised that we were running late so we came running to class and here we are!" the girl, who Omega realised was Ruby, explained at a speed that would put a bullet to shame.
"Um… what?" Omega said, picking his jaw up from the floor.
Upon sitting down, the teacher infront of them started the lecture.
"Monsters! Deeeemons... Prowlers of the night! Yes, the creatures of Grimm have many names, but I merely refer to them as prey! Ha-ha!" He joked, badly. Realising no one laughed at his pitifully bad joke, he continued. "Uhhhh... And you shall too, upon graduating from this prestigious academy! Now, as I was saying: Vale, as well as the other three kingdoms, are safe havens in an otherwise treacherous world! Our planet is absolutely teeming with creatures that would love nothing more than to tear you to pieces! And that's where we come in. Huntsmen! Huntresses..." He said, winking at Yang, who groans uncomfortably. Port, who seemed to not notice, continued again, "Individuals who have sworn to protect those who cannot protect themselves! From what, you ask? Why, the very world!"
Omega groaned as a random student cheered, apparently liking the 'joke', to which every head turned to face him making him embarrassed and sit down. Once again, Port continued, "That is what you are training to become. But first: A story. A tale of a young, handsome man... Me! When I was a boy..."
As the teacher rambled on about his past, Omega could feel his eyelids falling. Placing his head on the desk, he slowly fell into a sleep full of dreams about Railguns, girls and boring lectures.
Only to be awoken when he got poked by his long-time friend, Crimson, to hear the last few words of is lecture.
"The moral of this story? A true Huntsman must be honorable! A true Huntsman must be dependable! A true Huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise! So, who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?" he asked, to which the Ice Queen's hand shot up immediately.
"I do, sir!" She half yelled, the anger not going unnoticed by any of the members of Team COPR.
"Well, then, let's find out! Step forward, and face your opponent!" Port exclaimed, gesturing to a cage.
"… How did we not see that until just now..?" Omega asked Crimson, who just shrugged, staring at the cage which had bright, glowing red eyes, easily visible through the bars.
Having changed into her combat gear, Weiss readied herself for the fight.
"Goooo, Weiss!" Yang yelled from the crowd.
"Fight well!" Blake added in, holding a little flag.
"Yeah, represent teeeeam RWBY!" Ruby cheered.
Weiss lowered her sword a bit and turned to face her, "Ruby! I'm trying to focus!" she yelled at the young leader, who shrunk back and muttered an apology.
"Allllright!" Port shouted as he raised his weapon, a blunderbuss with an axe at the back, and struck the lock, releasing the Grimm that was kept captive, a Boarbatusk.
It recklessly charged at her, giving her a chance to deflect its attack and dodged out the way, the Boarbatusk ran past her, gaining some distance, waiting, as if it were studying her, while Weiss was readying herself for its next attack.
"Ha-ha! Wasn't expecting that, were you?" Port stated from the sidelines, chuckling a bit.
Weiss launched herself towards the Grimm infront of her, sticking her blade forward at its skull. At the same time, the Boarbatusk commenced its charge and ran towards her. They met in the centre of the classroom and Weiss' rapier got wedged in its tusks. Still holding onto the hilt, she fought to regain control over her weapon.
"Bold, new approach. I like it!" Port exclaimed his ever so slightly unhelpful advice from the side again.
"Come on, Weiss, show it who's boss!" Ruby yelled, trying to encourage her team-mate, who just glared back at her.
Taking the opportunity, the Grimm turned its head, ripping the sword from Weiss' grip and slamming her back with its tusks.
"Oh-ho! Now what will you do without your weapon?" Port butted in once again, to which Crimson rolled her eyes.
Weiss looked up to see the Boarbatusk charged again, she rolled away just before she got trampled by the Grimm, making it smash into a desk. She ran to her sword, sliding to pick it up.
"Weiss! Go for its belly! There's no armor underneath-" Ruby started, noticing the lack of protection.
"Stop telling me what to do!" Weiss yelled at her leader, who looked hurt, even from the back.
The Boarbatusk leapt to its feet and rolled into a ball, spinning rapidly towards its opponent, gaining speed as it launched itself at Weiss. She activated one of her blue-white glyphs to block the roll and leapt up to a black glyph, which turned blue, and launched herself into the Grimm's stomach, squealing as it died. Weiss simply gasped with relief.
"Bravo! Bra-vo! It appears we are indeed in the presence of a true Huntress-in-training! I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today. Be sure to cover the assigned readings, and... stay vigilant! Class dismissed!" Port said, rather cheerily. Weiss just glared and walked away.
"Sheesh, what's with her?" Jaune muttered, watching her exit the classroom. Prost simply considered her actions and started follow her out of the classroom.
"Prost?" Rosa asked, looking at him, curious as to his intentions.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt her, just tell her stuff" he replied, a small smile on his face.
He rounded the corner, stopping and going back once he heard the sounds of the Ice Queen herself, and Ruby. "That's just it - you've done nothing to earn your position! Back in the forest, you acted like a child, and you've only continued to do so!"
"Weiss, where is this coming from? What happened to all the talk about 'working together'? I thought you believed in acting as a team." Ruby
"Not a team led by you. I've studied and trained. And quite frankly, I deserve better." Weiss said, turning away from Ruby. "Ozpin made a mistake." she put rather bluntly, walking off.
Not waiting to see Ruby's response, Prost activated his semblance, which made him transparent, and walked past her walking to the balcony's doorway to see her gripping onto the railing.
"You seem pissed" He said, deactivating it.
Spinning round and putting her hand on her weapon's hilt she faced him.
"Woah! Chill. Just want to talk" He responded, raising his hands, Weiss glaring at him the whole time, "What's up? You've been pretty pissed since the announcements of teams yesterday" he continued, walking over to the railing and leaning on it.
"Well… I think I should have been the leader of Team RWBY!" she said.
A brief silence filled the air before Prost began to laugh.
"What are you laughing at, you dolt?!" She screeched, trying to stare him down... and failing miserably.
"Man, that's a good joke" he said, wiping away a fake tear.
"A joke?!" she yelled in his face, a fire burning in her ice cold eyes.
"Let me explain, at the moment, I don't see a huntress in training, I see someone's who's got everything they want, when they wanted, it for their whole life" he said, his grin disappearing.
"That's not even remotely true!" she responded, to which Prost just smirked and raised an eyebrow, "Well… not entirely true" she muttered, giving in.
"Look, you don't get everything, I learnt that a long time ago, and sulking isn't going to do shit, so, don't complain about what you don't have, and treasure what you do, because someday, it might be gone and you can't do anything about it" he continued, turning around and facing back to the doorway, putting all of his weight on the railing, a dark look on his face, "Don't try to be the best leader you can, try to be the best team-mate, I think your leader would appreciate that."
Weiss pondered his words for a bit, then smiled a bit at his back, as she watched him walk off.
Chapter 5 is complete! And it is the longest chapter so far!
My favourite part of this chapter was probably the fight with the Boarbatusk. I just love action, y'know?
Not sure if I got Ruby right, but I tried and I think I did well.
Also, I decided to put both episodes of The Badge and The Burden in one, just to make it easier.
Anyway, thanks for reading, reviews are always welcomed. Stay legendary!
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